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David Bruce Smith Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$556kReligion$503kEducation$294kArts & Culture$228kRecreation & Sports$100kPhilanthropy$45kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY$50,000
CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$50,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY & MUSEUM$50,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
JSSA - HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PROGRAM$20,000
CHILDREN OF DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION$15,000
OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT$15,000
LIBRARY OF AMERICA$12,500
THE CHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA$10,000
WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOOKS$7,500
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI$7,500
THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION$1,500
FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $12k → 17%RESTLESS BOOKS: $10k → 20%WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY (ARENA STAGE): $65k → 14%CHILDREN OF DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%HISTORY NEWS NETWORK: $5k → 9%AFNIPI: $10k → 14%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 6%CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%THE CHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MD COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $10k → 17%WA DRAMA SOCIETY INC (DBA ARENA STAGE): $10k → 14%CHILDREN OF DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 6%CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%CHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRAINC: $5k → 8%OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT: $20k → 17%ARENA STAGE: $5k → 14%LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC DBS LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $7k → 6%CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%CHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA INC: $5k → 8%OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT: $15k → 17%CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%CHARLES E LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $13k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC (DBA PLANET WORD MUSEUM): $10k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $70k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $8k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 8%AFNHU: $5k → 17%DCJCC: $100k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $30k → 8%DCJCC: $100k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%DCJCC: $100k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%DCJCC: $100k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%DCJCC: $100k → 14%CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 8%AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $8k → 14%JSSA - HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PROGRAM: $20k → 8%MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $3k → 14%WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOOKS: $8k → 14%MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $3k → 14%PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 13 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
24

Total granted

$1.4M
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+32%

Still filing today

77%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CE
    CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +14%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +35%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CE
    CHARLES E LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • WD
    WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY (ARENA STAGE)
    one grant, 2021 · $65k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
United States Capitol Historical Society

Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…

Arts & Culture
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the most unlike its peers is The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DCJCC — $500,000 · OtherDCJCCCHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $400,000 · OtherCHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTONCHARLES E LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $100,000 · OtherCHARLES E LIFE COMMUNITIES HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTONWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY (ARENA STAGE) — $65,000 · OtherWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY (ARENA STAGE)+16 more — $149,000 · Other+16 moreCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $160,000 · EducationCHARLES E SMITH JEWI…THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM — $100,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL SPORTIN…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERS…+3 more — $5,400 · EducationCHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA — $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureRESTLESS BOOKS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $8,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $70,000 · InternationalTHE OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HABERMAN INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH STUDIES — $2,500 · Religion826DC INC — $500 · Youth Development
Other$1,214,000Education$315,400Arts & Culture$94,000International$70,000Philanthropy$45,000Community Improvement$20,000Religion$2,500Youth Development$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESTLESS BOOKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS — $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HABERMAN INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH STUDIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826DC INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Robert H Smith Family FoundationVA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert H Smith Family Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization David Bruce Smith Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Restless Books Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to David Bruce Smith Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to David Bruce Smith Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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